Abbassia
Abbassia is a neighbourhood that makes up five shiakhas in al-Wayli district in Cairo, Egypt. The Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral is located in Abbassia, as are the medical faculty of Ain Shams University and its affiliate hospital units.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: neighborhood in Cairo, capital of Egypt
- Also known as: “‘Abbâsîya”, “‘Abbâsîyeh”, “Abbasieh”, “Abbasiyah”, “Al ‘Abbāsīyah”, “Al ‘Abbāsiyyah”, “Al `Abbasiyah”, and “El ‘Abbāsīya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sakakini Palace and Abdou Pasha.
Sakakini Palace
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Habib Pasha El Sakakini Palace is a palace located in the El Sakkakini district of Cairo, Egypt. Built in 1897 by Habib Sakakini, it is considered as one of Egypt's most important palaces due to its Rococo-style architecture.
Abdou Pasha
Metro station
Abdou Pasha station is a station on the Cairo Metro, part of Phase 1 of Line 3. It is located under El-Abaseya street in Abdou Pasha Square.
Al-Nour
Mosque
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The Al-Nour Mosque is a mosque in Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt. It is among the landmarks of the neighborhood and the largest mosques in the city with several different halls for multi-purposes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hadaiq el Qubbah and Al Daher.
Hadaiq el Qubbah
Hamlet
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Hadaek al-Qubbah is a district in the Northern Area of Cairo, Egypt.
Al Daher
Neighborhood
Al-Daher is a district in the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. According to the district map, and the census, it is subdivided into the qisms of al-Wayli and el-Daher, or al-Zahir. Some of their better known quarters are Sakakini and Abbassia.
Garden City
Garden City is a well-planned and leafy district of central Cairo, immediately south of the very centre of the modern city at Midan Tahrir. In 1905 the agricultural architect Jose Lamba was asked by the owners of the Nile Land and Agricultural Company to design a new city.
Abbassia
- Categories: quarter and sheyakha
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Abbassia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “العباسية”
- Arabic: “العباسيه”
- Arabic: “حى العباسيه”
- Arabic: “عباسية”
- Chinese: “Abbassia”
- Chinese: “阿巴西亞”
- Dutch: “Abbassia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “العباسيه”
- French: “Abbassia”
- German: “Abbasiya”
- German: “Abbassia”
- German: “Abbassieh”
- German: “al-Abbasiyya”
- German: “ʿAbbāsīya”
- Japanese: “アバシア”
- Persian: “عباسیا”
- Persian: “عباسیه”
- Russian: “Аббасия”
- Russian: “Аббассия”
- South Azerbaijani: “عباسیه (میصر)”
- South Azerbaijani: “عباسیه”
- Swedish: “Abbassia”
- Urdu: “عباسیہ”
- Uzbek: “Abbosiya”
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